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We All Scream…When the Ice Cream Truck Breaks Down

Preventative maintenance is one of the most crucial aspects of owning and operating a profitable food truck or ice cream truck. Especially during the hot summer months, it’s crucial to keep your truck in its absolute prime. With the wear and tear of excessive heat and maximum usage, it’s important to upkeep your vehicle with regular preventative maintenance. This could mean the difference between a $500 fix and a $5,000 component restoration.

However, no matter how well you maintain your food truck, you should always keep a healthy financial emergency fund and estimate higher costs to be sure you won’t be taken out of the game and lose profit if a problem does occur. Ice cream trucks demand even higher refrigeration upkeep since the temperature is critical in keeping the consistency and quality of the product at its absolute best.

Preventative maintenance is great for a food truck, but remember that its owner needs proper upkeep as well! Operating a truck requires long hours on your feet in hot weather so its important to take care of yourself just as well as you take of your truck. Remember to also check local guidelines and rules about limiting hours of operation, how often you can work a particular street or area, and how many stops you’re allowed to make.

Keep Your Food On The Move!

We offer a wide range of services for all food trucks, catering trucks, concession trailers, and mobile kitchens.

Don’t waste your time driving to a shop. We will go wherever you are!

Replacement parts on hand for ALL brands, sizes and applications

Licensed and EPA Certified

Service 24 Hours/Day – 7 Days/Week

Sales, Service and Installation for Any Application, Any Size, Any Brand.

Fowler and Sons, Inc. specializes in the sales, service and installation of all commercial refrigeration systems in restaurants, commercial and industrial kitchens, supermarkets and convenience stores. Refrigeration systems include refrigerators, walk-in coolers, freezers and ice machines.

Novar Certified

CPC Certified

Danfoss Certified

Licensed & EPA Certified

Factory Trained Technicians

Service and Install All Brands, All Sizes, All Applications

Replacement Parts On Hand for All Brands

Schedule a preventative maintenance checkup with Fowler and Sons before those hot summer months hit. Fix it now so you don’t have to replace it later!

Electricity rules the modern life–we can’t get away from it! It’s a really interesting facet of our lives. Read on for some interesting facts about electricity!

Just a single spark of static electricity can measure up to 3,000 volts!

You know the ocean is a scary place…watch out for electric eels which use strong electric shocks up to 500 volts for hunting and self-defense.

Birds love power lines, but they don’t get cooked up there–how?? Birds aren’t in danger of getting shocked as long as they remain on one power line. As soon as they touch another with a wing or foot, a circuit is created which allows electricity to flow through the body, ending in electrocution and a fried bird.

How does coal work? As the biggest source of energy in the world, the steam created from burning coal is used to spin turbines attached to generators.

You can’t see it with the naked eye, but lightning flows from the ground to the cloud. We see the part where the charge goes from the ground back up into the cloud. You can find very interesting slow-motion videos of this awesome natural occurance.

Winter is a tough time for anyone with long luscious locks or prone to being skittish, thanks to static electricity. It’s created when electrons from one object jump to another object. Maybe now that you know, you won’t jump when you get shocked!

If you thought turning your TV off is saving energy, think again! About 75% of electricity is used while products in the home are turned off. Desktops idle at 80 watts, while laptops idle at 20 watts. It might surprise you, but idle power uses more electricity than all of the solar panels in the U.S. combined!

What’s your guess for the most efficient appliance in your kitchen? If you guessed microwave, you’re correct! It uses 1/3 of the wattage of most ovens.

Electricity: Additions, Modifications & Indoor/Outdoor Lighting

Fowler and Sons, Inc. provides expert commercial electrical services to meet the needs of a various size companies. We can provide consultations for the best lighting for your business as well as provide full and custom installation of lights.

OUR SOLUTIONS INCLUDE:

All Electrical Wiring for Indoor Lighting

Consultation on Best Lights for Business

Full and Custom Installation of Lights

Service Indoor Lighting

Certified for All Health Department Issues for Lighting

Upfit Commercial Kitchens

Complete Service Change Outs

Installation of New Equipment

Interlock/Control Wiring

Interlock AAON Units

Smart $aver Energy Incentives Program

With Duke Energy’s Smart $aver® Incentive program, businesses can receive cash for installing high-efficiency lighting, HVAC, pumps and other qualifying equipment. The use of energy-efficient equipment enables your business to improve its bottom line by reducing energy consumption. And Smart $aver incentives help lower the costs associated with upgrades.

By taking advantage of the Smart $aver program you can:

Help buy down the incremental cost difference between standard and energy-efficient equipment.

Invest in high-efficiency equipment without exceeding annual budgets.

Contribute to a greener environment by reducing the amount of natural resources needed to keep your business running.

Happy First Day of Spring!

Surely you’ve heard us talk in every manner about “preventative maintenance.” Of course, there’s all kinds of ways to practice preventative maintenance, but it tends to be thrown around in a manner that assumes you know exactly what you need to be doing. Since spring is upon us with warmer weather, your HVAC could perhaps use some tuning up.

Here’s your first major tip: Maintenance is best done in the spring and fall for a system that both heats and cools. Perfect timing!

With outdoor units, there are several simple inspections that can be done leading up to the spring season including inspecting:

Unit for refrigerant level. Adjust if necessary.

Compressor and tubing for damage.

Coil & cabinet. May require cleaning.

Inside cabinet for dirt, leaves, and debris.

Fan motor and blades that may require lubrication.

Control box, controls, accessories, wiring, and connections. Check for wear or damage.

Raleigh Brew and Food

What could be better than food trucks or craft beer? What about having both…at the same time! And it just so happens, you’re in the prime spot to experience both. Raleigh offers a huge variety of breweries and food trucks, as well as monthly food truck rodeos for maximum exposure to the world of local, craft, awesome, laid back, delicious food and local brew. Don’t just hear about how much other people like these places, go try it out and start bragging yourself. We’ll start out with a handful of Raleigh’s Continue reading →

Sales, Service and Installation

Fowler and Sons, Inc. specializes in the sales, service and installation for Any Application, Any Size, Any Brand of plumbing systems. This includes systems in restaurants, commercial and industrial kitchens, supermarkets and convenience stores. Plumbing services include back-flow, camera inspection and misting.

If you have grown tired of the fast-food dynasties through your town and have become downtrodden with the downtown scene and are looking to experience more than the common chow, look no further than your local Food Truck Rodeo. With its predecessors dating back so far as the Texas Chuck Wagon and the construction site snack trailer, the modern day food truck is steeped in tradition, and doesn’t taste too bad either!

The great-great-grandfather of the food truck can be traced back to Charles Goodnight, a Texas cattle rancher. He realized how difficult it could be producing quality meals during long cattle drives. Goodnight took an old US army wagon and built out shelves and storage and then stocked it with everything from tableware to medical supplies. He also stocked a water barrel and a sling so that he may heat and cook food. Thus, the chuck wagon was invented.

Many variations of the food truck have existed over the years, some which include: mobile canteens utilized by the US Army and food trailers that served many of New York’s construction sites. These days the food truck has evolved in popularity due to the social media boom, and once more commonplace in big cities, these food trucks have expanded into the smallest of towns.

Food Truck chic has grown throughout the social circle so much so as they are being hired for special events such as weddings, school dances, birthday parties, retirement parties, and public gatherings like art festivals and movie nights.